Narratology
English Literature
English Literature
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| Sprache | English |
| Kategorie | Englisch |
| Stufe | Universität |
| Erstellt / Aktualisiert | 05.04.2016 / 05.04.2016 |
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Narrative
A form of communication which presents a sequence of events involving characters and told by a narrator
Narratology
The theory and analysis of the structure of narrative
Story
Events that unfold through the narrative (What?)
Plot
The events that make up the story (Why?)
Discourse
The form of language in which a narrative is presented (How?)
Narrartive modes
How an episode is presented; showing or telling
Mimesis
Showing
Diagesis
Telling
Scenic presentation
Continuous stream of detailed action events, with minimal narrative interference
Summary
Narrator condenses sequence of actions
Description
Introduction of a character or description of a setting
Comment / Commentary
Narrator intrudes to comment on characters or the development of action
Narrative action
Sequence of acts and events
Action unit
distinct point on the story line
Episode
group of events consisting of three parts; exposition, complication and resolution
Primary story line
Main part of a story
Narrative
Sequence of episodes
Beginning
opening passage of a text
Point of attack
Events that begin the primary story line
Ab ovo (point of attack)
beginning with the earliest event in the main story line
In medias res (point of attack)
beginning in the middle of the main story line
In ultimas res (point of attack)
beginning with the last event on the main story line
Narrative Voice
Element of narrative discourse
Subjective expressions
Indicators that particularize the voice as a character
Pragmatic signals
Mark the speaker's awareness of an audience
Heterodiegetic narrator
Not involved as a character
Homodiegetic narrator
Narrator is a character in the story himself
Reliable narrator
Is authoritative and believable
Unreliable narrator
presentation is suspicious
Omniscient narrator
third-person, all-knowing, reliable, usually heterodiegetic narrator
First-person narrator
usually homodiegetic, unreliable, personally involved
Overt narrative voice
Immediate and direct, audible voice of the narrator
Covert narrative voice
hidden voice of the narrator; obscures narrative mediation through a speaking voice
Focalization
Alignment of narrative voice with the experience in the action of the narrator or one of the characters
Internal focalizer
Character that focuses his / her attention on something or someone and so focuses the attention of the reader
Reader immersion
Reader's adoption of a focalizer's point of view
Discourse-now
Current point in time in discourse-time; the narrator's now
Story-now
Current point in time in story time; a character's now
Anachrony
An anachrony is when the story is not told in chronological order
Objective anachrony
Factual event or object is presented out of the historical order
